Despite Frelinghuysen, money goes for rail

Despite attempts by Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, the federal government has released nearly half a billion bucks for upgrades on the Northeast Corridor rail line. Frelinghuysen wanted to divert the money for flood relief in the Midwest. The rail lines between Trenton and New York have been in need of repair for some time. Breakdowns often cause massive delays. The overhead wires that power the trains date to the Depression. We have sympathy for flood victims in the Midwest but they also have members of Congress to look out for them. Maybe they’d like to adopt Frelinghuyysen.

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Although as new jerseyans, we would prefer more federal funding going into our state, allocating funds where they are needed more is the most practical use of funds. What’s better, depression era wires on our rails or nothign because floods washed everything you own away? Perhaps Rodney is a bit more couorageous than the typical politician in congress these days. Kind of selfish on our part if we wanted something that we have updated vs. having nothing because on flooding. Yeah, “maybe they’d like to adopt Frelinghyysen” and us be stuck with someone like lautenberg who just wasted how much money on the secaucus train station?

Freylinghuysen may have been moved in this instance by compassion, but he doesn’t do enough to secure for New Jersey a fairer share of the federal dollars New Jersey taxpayers send to Washington. And his leadership in the recent budget debacle was nonexistent.

I can completely understand his thinking, but let them cut some farm subsidies. NJ already subsidizes everyone else.

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